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in April, anti-LGBT pseudoscientistand Fox News “Medical A-Team” member Dr. Keith
Ablow wrote a scathing column criticizing J. Crew president Jenna Lyons
for appearing in an ad in which she was depicted painting her son’s toenails
pink. Ablow called the ad an “attack on
masculinity” and promoted a number of transphobic and non-scientific claims
about gender roles and gender identity.

This
week, he responded to reports that Lyons – who Ablow has never met – is divorcing her
husband and has begun dating a
woman. Unsurprisingly, Ablow sees the news as vindication of his earlier
remarks.

In
a FoxNews.com column entitled “Jenna Lyons, You and J. Crew Wanted Your
Son to Stop Being Such a Boy,” Ablow claimed that Jenna’s divorce and decision
to date a
woman is evidence of her “discomfort with masculinity”:

I thought Lyons was promoting a cultural agenda at her son’s
expense—and at the expense of all our sons whose masculinity was being
downplayed. Why else would you pick that photograph, decide for Beckett that it
was a really good one with which to brand him in the minds of millions, and make
sure that his hair was long and wavy for the photo shoot? Why spend tens of
thousands of dollars (or a hundred thousand or more) to distribute that
particular photo of Beckett to millions of us?

[…]

If reports in the media, from the New York Post's Page Six,
for example, are correct, Lyons is now divorcing her husband, is romantically
involved with a woman and battling over how much of a settlement to give her
husband, since she was the breadwinner in the family.

[…]

What it says is that my worry that Ms. Lyons might be
expressing her own discomfort with masculinity and projecting it onto her son—and
mine, and yours—seems to have been justified.

It says that Lyons does seem to have been promulgating her
perspectives on gender roles having no value.

It says that she was, indeed, apparently using J. Crew—a
brand so many of our kids gravitate toward—as her launching pad for
a mini-campaign to change the way our kids think about their bodies and
their gender identities. [emphasis added]

For
the most part, Ablow’s “analysis” is just laughable.
According to him, boys aren’t supposed to have long, wavy hair, women aren’t supposed to be the breadwinner in
the family,and women who date women are uncomfortable
with masculinity.
Ablow continues to prove himself to be more worthy of ridicule than serious
consideration.

At
the same time, it’s important to note the not-so-funny message Ablow is trying
to promote about LGBT people. According to Ablow, Lyons pressured her son to
“stop being such a boy” because she herself doesn’t like masculinity, as
evidenced by her relationship with another woman.

That
doesn’t bother Ablow, though, who’s always been able to rely on Fox to promote
his own bigoted opinions, even when those
opinions are completely divorced from the conclusions of mainstream medical
organizations.